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• MLA Adam Olsen named interim BC Green Party leader

  20-12-2019 20:30 via abbynews.com
  
  Adam Olsen, MLA for Saanich North and the Island, says election for new leader to begin in January
  
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• Surrey’s Elenore Sturko is the sole incumbent MLA for CentreBC ahead of election

  22-09-2026 23:17 via abbynews.com
  
  Elenore Sturko is now the only incumbent MLA still with CentreBC heading into the provincial elections, less than a week after eight sitting MLAs announced they would be joining the centrist party.
  Sturko told Today In BC Tuesday (Sept. 22) that the seven others, including the party’s incoming leader Peter Milobar, had rejoined B.C. Conservatives under interim Leader Lorne Doerkson.
  CentreBC’s president Mike Wignall slammed that decision in a statement.
  “We are disappointed tha
  
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• Circus Osorio Circus bringing K-Pop energy to Abbotsford’s Sevenoaks Shopping Centre

  22-09-2026 22:12 via abbynews.com
  
  The Circus Osorio Circus is returning to Abbotsford and this time they are bringing some K-Pop energy.
  The show takes over the parking lot at Sevenoaks Shopping Centre from Oct. 1 to 5 with a total of 11 shows planned over the five days.
  Making their Abbotsford debut at the event is the K-Pop Circus Girls, who are inspired by the hit Netflix show K-Pop Demon Hunters. Other performers expected under the big top include: the Globe of Death motorcycle riders, aerialists, clowns, acrobats and more.
  
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• MLA Chapman leaving B.C. Conservatives for One BC

  22-09-2026 22:11 via abbynews.com
  
  Surrey South MLA Brent Chapman is leaving the Conservative Party of B.C. to join OneBC.
  In a statement posted to X, Chapman cited differences in the party now, compared to 2024 when he chose to run.
  “Over time, it became clear to me that we did not all share the same understanding of those principles or of the platform we had run on,” he said in the statement. “The disagreements within caucus, and increasingly in public, made that difficult to ignore. I chose to stay because I
  
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• Abbotsford author John Redekop releases 11th book

  22-09-2026 19:51 via abbynews.com
  
  Abbotsford political scientist John H. Redekop holds two books launches this month for his recently published 11th book.
  Redekop says his latest book – titled Politics, God’s Other Arena – is his most important book.
  “It is based on 70 years of reading, research, teaching, observation and experience,” he said.
  In the book, Redekop asks and answers many basic questions about politics and government, such as: Has God provided a distinctive code of ethics for governmen
  
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• VIDEO: Occupant not located after house fire in Maple Ridge

  22-09-2026 19:50 via abbynews.com
  
  The resident of a house that burned on Tuesday morning, Sept. 22, has not been located, and firefighters fear he may not have made it out of the badly damaged building.
  Maple Ridge fire chief Dave Samson explained the unsafe condition of the gutted residence, and large amount of debris, have combined to hamper firefighters as they try to conduct a complete search of the home. The house in the 21000-block of 123 Avenue was still smoking at 9 a.m.
  Emergency responders had been unsuccessful in loca
  
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• UPDATE: Body found inside burned house in Maple Ridge

  22-09-2026 19:50 via abbynews.com
  
  A body has been found inside a house that burned on Tuesday morning, Sept. 22, in Maple Ridge.
  Firefighters spent the morning looking for the resident, and at 1 p.m. police issued a statement that a deceased individual had been found in the house. Their identity had not been confirmed.
  Maple Ridge fire chief Dave Samson explained the unsafe condition of the gutted residence, and large amount of debris, combined to hamper firefighters searching the home. The house in the 21000-block of 123 Avenue
  
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• Centenarian loving life in Vernon

  22-09-2026 19:30 via abbynews.com
  
  Like she doesn’t already have enough fun as one of the oldest living citizens in B.C.
  Now, Vernon’s Ethel Dover – 106 years young – has a new weapon in her amusement arsenal:
  A Nerf gun.
  “She’s quite the mean shot,” marvelled Kim Magarvey, general manager at Dover’s home, the Aspira Orchard Valley Retirement residence, in downtown Vernon.
  “She’s also an avid reader and funny as heck.”
  Born April 8, 1920 in Winnipeg, Dover is being
  
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• Terry Fox’s nurse, guest at a Surrey run, had to tell the world about his death in 1981

  22-09-2026 19:28 via abbynews.com
  
  Organizers of a Terry Fox Run in Surrey welcomed special guest Alison Ince on Sunday morning, Sept. 20.
  Ince, one of Fox’s nurses at Royal Columbian Hospital during his final days, was at the Fraser Heights Village site of the annual charity run hosted by Terry Fox Foundation.
  Ince became media liaison for Fox at Royal Columbian Hospital, where he died in June 1981.She remembers having to tell waiting media representatives that the Marathon of Hope hero had lost his battle with cancer.
  Ear
  
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• Eby visits SFU’s new medical school in Surrey

  22-09-2026 19:05 via abbynews.com
  
  B.C. Premier David Eby got to take a look inside Simon Fraser University’s (SFU) new medical school in Surrey on Sept. 16.SFU’s Stephens Family School of Medicine invited Eby on a tour of the school’s temporary learning space and allowed him to meet the first cohort of medical students.The tour included demonstrations of several technology-based tools, including simulated patient-care rooms, medical mannequins, point-of-care ultrasound and virtual reality.
  One of the more inter
  
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• Matthew Cavacece seeks seat on Abbotsford council

  22-09-2026 18:51 via abbynews.com
  
  Matthew Cavacece has announced his candidacy for Abbotsford city council in the upcoming municipal election.
  An Abbotsford resident and local labourer, Cavacece says city hall needs more representation from people who understand the everyday pressures facing working families, younger residents and people trying to establish stable careers.
  “My mission is to bring honest, practical, working-class representation to Abbotsford city council,” he said.
  “I will listen to residents, p
  
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• Sow that walked into Hope pharmacy put down, confirms bear awareness volunteer

  22-09-2026 18:23 via abbynews.com
  
  A bear that wandered into a business in downtown Hope has been euthanized.The bear entered the Hope Pharmasave on Wallace Avenue at about 2 p.m. on Sept. 20. It was accompanied by a small cub.
  The streets and nearby park were busy with tourist activity at the time, and several videos and photos of the bears surfaced on Facebook groups, including videos of people following behind the bears. At one point in a video, the bears walk between a vehicle and a drive-thru window.In another video, the bea
  
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• Premier David Eby expected to call provincial snap election today

  22-09-2026 17:49 via abbynews.com
  
  After a week of speculation, Premier David Eby is expected to call a snap election Tuesday afternoon.
  He has called a news conference at 12:15 p.m. at Government House in Victoria. This is where he would need to go to meet with the Lieutenant Governor to “drop the writ” and dissolve the legislature.
  A provincial election called today could be as soon as Saturday, Oct. 24 – a week after the municipal elections.Eby has tried to position this as a necessary step to cement his mand
  
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• BREAKING: Snap provincial election called in B.C. for Oct. 24, byelection cancelled

  22-09-2026 17:49 via abbynews.com
  
  British Columbia is headed to the polls for a provincial snap election.
  Speculation about an election call percolated for about a week as the B.C. Conservative Party dissolved into chaos, and Kerry-Lynne Findlay quit as party leader.
  Election day will be Oct. 24.
  The election call will automatically cancel the Abbotsford-Mission byelection, which was set to conclude this Saturday. Reann Gasper had vacated that seat to give former B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay an opening to run.
  B.
  
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• Crash kills 2 in Enderby

  22-09-2026 17:47 via abbynews.com
  
  Two people were killed in an early-morning crash in Enderby Monday.
  The Vernon North Okanagan RCMP are investigating the collision which took place Sept. 21 around 2:15 a.m.
  Police responded to a report of a single vehicle collision in the 1100 block of George Street.The investigation has determined the blue Volvo was travelling northbound on George Street when it left the road, colliding with a hydro pole and four parked vehicles in three different addresses.The 31-year-old male driver and 20-y
  
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• B.C. capital, Empress Hotel murder steal spotlight in Jason Priestley drama

  22-09-2026 17:30 via abbynews.com
  
  Canadian actor Jason Priestley has shared the screen with many co-stars over his nearly five-decade career, but his latest might just be the biggest one yet.
  Joining the former Beverley Hills, 90210 teen heartthrob and co-star Cindy Sampson for the new television show Private Eyes West Coast is B.C.’s capital city itself: Victoria.
  And there’s no disguising the fact the comedy-drama has set up shop in the province’s ‘Garden City’.
  From familiar landmarks to local bu
  
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• Sooke hills fire grows to 50 hectares, smoke visible across the South Island

  22-09-2026 16:21 via abbynews.com
  
  The Mount Jack wildfire outside Sooke on the South Island continues to burn out of control despite active work by crews.Discovered Sept. 20, the fire has grown to more than 50 hectares by late Sept. 21, according to the BC Wildfire Service.
  The fire, about four kilometres west of Sooke River, and south of Mount Jack continued to grow under dry conditions Monday (Sept. 21).
  “Earlier this afternoon, warm and dry daytime conditions fueled fire behaviour significantly, producing a highly visib
  
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• Longtime Vernon radio voice falls silent

  22-09-2026 14:30 via abbynews.com
  
  He had a voice made for radio.
  And Paul Burke put his set of pipes to great use across Canadian airwaves.
  Burke, former morning man in Vernon at CICF AM radio (now The Ranch FM), died Sept. 15, one month shy of his 80th birthday.
  Born in Lindsay, Ont., Burke spent much of his life sharing his voice, his stories, and his love of radio with the community.
  At one point, in the early 2000s, Burke’s voice could be heard on as many as 30 different radio stations around Canada and the world, than
  
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• Cocaine, cash found on senior e-scooter rider after arrest: Salmon Arm RCMP

  22-09-2026 04:49 via abbynews.com
  
  A violation ticket for riding an e-scooter without a helmet may be the least serious offence relating to a 74-year-old man’s recent arrest by Salmon Arm RCMP.
  At 5 p.m. on Aug. 1, police stopped the senior scooter rider on Shuswap Street for not wearing a helmet. However, the man was “previously observed making numerous short stops at known problem residences,” said Salmon Arm RCMP media relations officer Const. Andrew Hodges in a news release.The man was asked for identificati
  
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• Investigation continues into wildfire that destroyed 100+ structures near Summerland

  22-09-2026 04:41 via abbynews.com
  
  Investigators continue to seek additional potential witnesses or evidence into the origins of the Bald Range Wildfire on Aug. 7.
  Penticton RCMP investigators have been working in partnership with the RCMP Forensic Identification Section, RCMP Fire Investigators, BC Wildfire Service, Natural Resource Officers, and the Office of the Fire Commissioner to determine the cause of the fire.
  No details into the origins have been released, but a Sept. 21 news release stated that the investigation has co
  
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• CONCERT REVIEW: Foo Fighters bring 31 years of big rock hits to BC Place

  22-09-2026 03:08 via abbynews.com
  
  Foo Fighters have a long history of playing music in Vancouver, from those baby steps at Commodore Ballroom 31 years ago to full-blown rock show at BC Place Stadium on Sunday (Sept. 20).
  Dave Grohl’s band of soldiers effortlessly cranked out three decades of familiar songs on a warm, late-summer night. The stadium roof was open, filling the city with big power chords and thundering drums for close to three hours, hit after hit after hit.
  Foo Fighters are now well-oiled on this tour, launch
  
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• Burnaby Hospital redevelopment back on after ‘brief’ cancellation

  22-09-2026 02:15 via abbynews.com
  
  Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma says the Burnaby Hospital redevelopment is back on, but with a renewed plan.
  The Burnaby Hospital Phase 2 plan – along with eight other projects – was officially scrapped in April, following the release of Budget 2026. In the budget, timelines for the projects were to be “repaced,” but it did not reveal the cancelled contracts at the time.
  Now, Ma says that “brief pause” has allowed for “a lot of fine work to occur by a
  
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• Fatal train strikes more than double in B.C.

  22-09-2026 01:37 via abbynews.com
  
  More than double the number of people have lost their lives at train crossings so far this year, and that number doesn’t appear to be slowing, with two people fatally struck in the Fraser Valley in the past month.
  The BC Coroners Service reported that 13 people have been unintentionally killed by trains in the first eight months of 2026, which is a massive increase from the six who died during this same period last year.
  To mark the start of Rail Safety Week, Transportation and Transit Min
  
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• Charges laid in 2025 crash that killed Kelowna senior

  22-09-2026 00:13 via abbynews.com
  
  The alleged driver of the uninsured BMW involved in a car crash in February 2025 that killed a Kelowna woman and was investigated by the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) has officially been charged.Charges were approved on Friday, Sept. 18 for Tristian Pelletier-Vallee. The now-30-year-old is charged with dangerous operation causing death, dangerous operation causing bodily harm and failure to stop for a collision on Feb. 27, 2025 at Highway 97 and Highway 33 in Kelowna.The BMW wa
  
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• Abbotsford’s Santiago Llarena helps UBC earn win with first touchdown catch

  21-09-2026 23:51 via abbynews.com
  
  Abbotsford’s Santiago Llarena has made an early impact in Canada West football action with the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.
  The 2026 W.J. Mouat grad is in the midst of his freshman season with UBC and had a breakout game in his third appearance this season for the T-Birds.
  The 6-5, 235-pound tight end caught his first career CW touchdown pass and racked up 38 yards receiving to help UBC earn the 25-20 win over the fourth-ranked Regina Rams at Vancouver’s Thunderbirds
  
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• No criminality: Woman’s body found 10 years after disappearance near Salmon Arm

  21-09-2026 23:21 via abbynews.com
  
  The remains of a woman missing for more than 10 years have been found.
  The Vernon North Okanagan RCMP announced Monday that Deanna Wertz was located on Sept. 13 in a vast wooded area in the 2000 block of Yankee Flats Road in Salmon Arm.
  Civilian dog trainers were working in the area when human remains were found around 12:30 p.m.The remains were removed and positively identified as those of missing person, Deanna Mildred Wertz.Wertz was originally reported missing to police in the Yankee Flats a
  
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• MLA McInnis rejoins Conservatives

  21-09-2026 23:15 via abbynews.com
  
  Columbia River – Revelstoke MLA Scott McInnis is rejoining the Conservative Party of B.C. after briefly sitting as an independent amid internal caucus turmoil.
  McInnis left the party on Sept. 2, citing he could no longer support the “direction, judgement and decisions” of newly-elected party leader Kerry Lynne Findlay.Findlay resigned as party leader on Sept. 20 after an exodus of over a dozen Conservative MLAs since the summer, as common issues included concerns with her leade
  
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• Columbia River – Revelstoke MLA McInnis rejoins Conservative caucus

  21-09-2026 23:15 via abbynews.com
  
  Columbia River – Revelstoke MLA Scott McInnis is rejoining the Conservative Party of B.C. after briefly sitting as an independent amid internal caucus turmoil.
  McInnis left the party on Sept. 2, citing he could no longer support the “direction, judgement and decisions” of newly-elected party leader Kerry Lynne Findlay.Findlay resigned as party leader on Sept. 20 after an exodus of over a dozen Conservative MLAs since the summer, as common issues included concerns with her leade
  
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• B.C. Conservatives appoint Lorne Doerkson interim leader as ousted MLAs rejoin party

  21-09-2026 23:00 via abbynews.com
  
  The B.C. Conservative caucus voted to install Cariboo-Chilcotin MLA Lorne Doerkson as interim leader after Kerry-Lynne Findlay resigned Sunday afternoon.
  “My focus is on moving forward,” Doerkson said. “Last night, my colleagues nominated me to become leader of the official opposition, the interim leader, which I obviously accepted.”
  If Premier David Eby calls a snap election this week, as rumoured, Doerkson would be running to be the next premier.
  Findlay resigned after
  
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• Abbotsford school locked down after threat of violence

  21-09-2026 22:29 via abbynews.com
  
  Three schools and Abbotsford Recreation Centre were placed under safety precautions Monday morning (Sept. 21) after police received a call with a “potential threat of violence.”
  The Abbotsford Police Department stated in a social media post that the call came in just before 11 a.m. and referenced Yale Secondary.
  “The report prompted an immediate and significant police response to ensure the safety of students, staff, and users of the Abbotsford Recreation Centre,” the pos
  
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